Connectionists: ICML 2008 Tutorials programme, July 5 2008

[Chris Williams]

We are pleased to announce the line-up for the ICML 2008 Tutorials,
to be held on Sat July 5 in Helsinki, Finland.


T1 Painless embeddings of distributions: the function space view
Alex Smola, Arthur Gretton, and Kenji Fukumizu

T2 Stochastic optimal control theory
Bert Kappen, Marc Toussaint

T3 Dimensionality Reduction the Probabilistic Way
Neil Lawrence

T4 Graphical models and variational methods: Message-passing and relaxations
Martin Wainwright

T5 Playing Machines: Machine Learning Applications in Computer Games
Ralf Herbrich, Thore Graepel

T6 Beyond Convexity: Submodularity in Machine Learning
Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin

T7 Tutorial on Theory and Applications of Online Learning
Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Yoram Singer

T8 Visual Object Recognition and Retrieval
Rob Fergus

T9 Sparse Linear Models: Bayesian Inference and Experimental Design
Matthias Seeger

For abstracts and links to course webpages see
http://icml2008.cs.helsinki.fi/tutorials.shtml

Chris Williams
ICML 2008 Tutorials chair




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